1956 · musical · drama · romance
The King and I (1956)
Directed by Walter Lang2h 13m1956
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Our read: The King and I (1956) (1956) reads as a warm, steady, grounded musical · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured musical / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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